Amazing Volvo Commercial

 Kudos to Volvo and John Claude Van Damme! More amazing is that this commercial was filmed in one take at sunset in Spain.

Round up your Mates

St. Patty's is coming up (Saturday!) We're having folks over for homemade corned beef, before heading out to the annual bar crawl.

We could probably use a Border Collie;) Hilarious!

Bouncy Balls on San Francisco.

Do you remember this commercial from Sony Bravia?

Danish photographer Peter Funch captured images of the set. Aren't they spectacular? You can purchase limited edition prints at Lumas.

It seemed that it went on for too long...

....but I kept watching. Until the end.

Advertising Golden Age: Still Images shared by The New York Times

. Years after the United States, Britain, Italy and other countries were making a new art form out of 30-second promotions for detergents and toothpastes, France still prohibited private advertising.

Photo: Agence Publicis, 1971

Dim lingerie commercial. Only in 1968 did the government finally permit two minutes of commercials per day on a single television station.

Photo: Agence Publicis, 1971

Boursin cheese commercial. “This explains why television commercials started so late here — essentially because leftist opposition saw ads as corrupting the soul,” Mr. Séguéla said.

Photo: Agence Publicis, 1968

Photo: Agence Publicis, 1968

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